FLITTING DAY.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 59, 26 August 1875, Page 7

FLITTING DAY.

One of the most distressing elements in a moving is a small boy with an aspiring disposition. If he carries anything, it must be a chair, which he takes on his head with the back at the front so to prevent him from seeing ! where he is going, and with the erect legs in range 1 of the chandelier and upper door casings. Thus equipped, he strikes a military step, improvising his mouth -into a. trumpet, and starts out. In less than a quarter of an hour he has that chair safely on the cart where it is not wanted, and is hurrying j back after another. Before the carman ' has returned for the second load, the one boy has developed into eight, each boy with a chair, each boy under feet, and each boy making as. much noise as a planing mill on a damp day. If a boy cannot get a chair to carry, he wants two bed posts. He wants two, so that he can carry one under each arm. Then he starts down , stars. First the pasts cross each other at the front and nearly throw him down, then they cross, at the back,, and, the frontends fly off at a tangent, one of them digging into the kalsomined wall, acd the other entangling in the" bannisters. But he won't let One of them go, but hangs oh- to : both- with- exasperating bbstinacy. In the meantime the earj'irian, who is working by the load and 'hot by the day, is waiting at the foot f .of the stairs, and wishing that he had jtnat boy back of the Rocky Mountains for about fifteen minutes; and the > anxious father, with a straw bed in his 'arms and his eyes fall of dust, is at the

head of the stairs, waiting to come down, and vociferating 'at the top of his l voice, until 4h"e 'dust fronr the" -tick gets into his throat and precipitates him into a. violent fit of coughing*. By the time the third load is on the way, the novelty of helping- to carry furniture is worn off to the boy:, and he and his companions are. firing, rubbishi'rom the garret \at each other, or fooling with the horse just as some heavy object is being lifted out of the carb The' best plan for moving* a family that has a boy is to get him half a bushel of -frozen potatoes to throw, and set him out in the- shrubs until the affair is over.— { Danbury News.'